Bootsy Collins will play the New Year's Eve Funk Bash at Turfway Park, with proceeds going to the Bootsy Collins Foundation to help raise funds for student instruments.

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Bootsy Collins has performed with everyone from James Brown, George Clinton and Snoop Dogg to bluegrass great "Doc" Watson, but it has been a long time since he has played a show this close to home.

Collins will headline the annual New Year's Eve party at Turfway Park this year, which has been dubbed the Funk Bash, to benefit the Bootsy Collins Foundation. It is the first local performance by Collins, a Cincinnati native who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, in 25 years.

Jack Gordon, director of sales and marketing at Turfway Park, met Collins at a charity event in July, and the ...